I am the author of my own life; unfortunately I am using pen and I can not erase my mistakes nor would… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I'm always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn't stop. — Jocko Willink Copy Share Image
I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better. — Milton Jones Copy Share Image
“You could say we run a dating service. If you with some books that will take you on a date you will… — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“Reading good books gives a few lessons, stable minds, inner intellects, a lesson of life, and a way ahead to fly.” — Abid Hussain Copy Share Image
There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.” — Ismat Ahmed Shaikh Copy Share Image
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
“In my own academic field, it is much easier to get a doctorate in biblical studies if you do a relentlessly left-brain… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a huge, huge comic book fan. I love the superhero movies so much. If I had to be one of the… — Derek Theler Copy Share Image
In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period… — Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr Copy Share Image
“No one is asking, let alone demanding, that you write. The world is not waiting with bated breath for your article or… — Beth Mende Conny Copy Share Image
“It is not what is read or what is remembered, but only what is understood, that gives power,” — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly---Sam Keen, Author” — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so. — William Targ Copy Share Image
Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two… — Dino De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it. — Katharine Kerr Copy Share Image
I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A good friend is like a wonderful book, the inside is even better than the cover! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
“The words in his book wormed off the pages. Everything glittered like blank paper.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
